Pretty Purple Cabbage Bowls

Purple cabbage is so beautiful and tasty to work with. I put kind of a two to one ratio of purple cabbage to egg noodles for my cabbage bowls. I figured it would be healthier that way. Amazing. I will definitely be making this again.

Cabbage Bowls:

2 Cups Chicken Water (leftover from poached chicken breast)

1 Cup Egg Noodles

1/3 Cup Napa Cabbage

1 Onion

1 Head Purple Cabbage

3 Tb Soy Sauce

3 Tb Balsamic Vinegar

Salt & Pepper

1. Cook noodles in chicken water.

2. Saute onion in a large skillet. Add cabbage, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, and salt and pepper.

3. Add cooked noodles and chicken water to cabbage skillet. Cook until liquid is cooked off or absorbed.

Cold Cereal & Hot Cereal

We needed to make a quick breakfast. I thought of cereal. Anthony thought of adding fruit to it. I got out all the ingredients and washed the fruit. Anthony sliced the apple. We passed baby Shastya Felisya back and forth while we prepared our breakfasts. When we finished prepping, I ate the cold cereal, and Anthony ate the hot cereal.

Fennel Sweet Apple Beet Juice

So this juice tasted and looked a little like Good & Plenty candy product of Hershey, PA: "tasted like," because of the licorice flavor of the fennel, and "looked like" because of the bright happy color. Very interesting combination for a chewable juice with fibrous pulp galore.

Fennel Sweet Apple Beet Juice:

1 Cup Chopped Fennel

1 Quartered Golden Delicious Apple

1 Chopped Red Beet and Greens

Poached Chicken With Fresh Berries Over Napa Cabbage

This salad came to my mind shortly after I returned home from the grocery store with a bunch of great whole fresh ingredients! I did not let the fact that I didn't know what one of the ingredients was deter me from creating a fabulous salad. I mean, I could ball park the ingredient. It was definitely in the cabbage/ greens/ lettuce family. I thought it might be Swiss chard or Chinese cabbage. Anthony and I had just watched an episode of Iron Chef America on Amazon recently, and  the "secret ingredient" on that episode had been Swiss chard. I made our salads for lunch still not completely knowing what our mystery item was.

After lunch I googled Swiss chard. That was not our item. Then I googled types of cabbage. I saw pics of Chinese cabbage and Napa cabbage that looked similar to what I had brought home from the store. Taking a closer look, a certain Buzzle article clarified for me that what I had just used for our salads was indeed Napa cabbage. I told Anthony of my discovery. I laughed as I told him that I had seen Napa printed on the big twisty tie wrapped around my Napa cabbage, and that I had just thought that it said Napa like oranges say Florida, or some produce says California.

Poached Chicken With Fresh Berries Over Napa Cabbage:

1 Raw Chicken Breast

1/2 Head of Napa Cabbage

4 Large Strawberries

Handful of Blackberries

1 Lemon

Black Pepper

1. Drop raw chicken breast into boiling water. Turn heat down a little. Cook until done.

2. Cut cabbage and strawberries. Arrange first four ingredients on two plates.

3. Cut lemon in half. Squeeze lemon juice over salads. Sprinkle salads with black pepper.

  

Milk Chocolate Waffles

Anthony made us an early midnight snack around eleven. The milk chocolate waffles from scratch that he made for us were amazing. I had a little maple syrup for dipping sauce. He spread some peanut butter on his.

How To Get Anthony To Eat Raw Strawberries

Last night was like many other nights, we needed our midnight snack. I thought maybe we could eat some bowls of berries but Anthony said he doesn't really like eating them raw, that they are too tart. I asked him if he had ever eaten strawberries and cream with brown sugar. He said he hadn't. I told him that my family and I first fell in love with the dish when we were at Disney World in Florida. Quite a few years back, we had eaten strawberries and cream as an appetizer for breakfast a number of times at one of our favorite breakfast spots there. Anthony agreed to give the dish a try.

I used milk instead of cream. One, because it's healthier, two, because that's all we had on hand, and three, now that I think about it, because to me it tastes better. We both enjoyed our lovely snack. The berries were sweet enough with the milk and sugar for Anthony to enjoy! I really liked the dish presentation that I fashioned. The pattern I made with the strawberries on our plates reminded me of Amish quilt squares.

Strawberries & Cream

6 Large Strawberries

4 Tsp. Brown Sugar

1/2 Cup of Milk

1. Sprinkle brown sugar on two plates.

2. Cut strawberries in half and arrange on plates.

3. Pour milk slowly on to plates.

Shari's Colorful Crawfish Etouffee

I came across a bunch of pics for crawfish etouffee while I was googling "crawfish boil." I was so excited after my crawfish boil that I had plenty of crawfish leftover so I could make crawfish etouffee! My husband and I really enjoyed both my crawfish boil and my crawfish etouffee! This week was my first time making both dishes. The way I came up with my recipes was that I looked at a bunch of recipes online, and then I made up my own recipes from ingredients that I had on hand that were similar to those that I had seen in recipes online. 

Shari's Colorful Crawfish Etouffee:

1 Lb. Shucked Crawfish

1 Tsp. Minced Garlic

1 Tb Ketchup

3 Mini Sweet Peppers

1/2 Cup Leftover Onion & Habanero

1 Cup Seafood Stock From Crawfish Boil

1 Cup Water

2 Tb Flour

Few Dashes of Cayenne Pepper